SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5050, 31 May 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

FORT OK WELLINGTON. Hian Watku.— 7.l a.m.; 7.24 r m ARRIVED.

May 30,-—Arawata. s.s., 023 tons, Underwood, from ■Melbourne, via the South. I’a-ssengers—Saloon : Mr. and Mrs. Shearman two children and two servants. Mesdaincs Simpson, Wolfe, and Lysight. Misses abort and Uysight, Messrs. Sirnmonds, Stracban, and billing, 2 steerage, bishop, agent. , Dunetlin, schooner, 00 tons, Stewart, from Oamaru. IMaster, agent. .Australian Sovereign, barque, S;js tons, berry, irom Newcastle. Franklyn, agent. , t „ TTanicr, s.s., IS tons. Holmes, from loxton. laascngers— Mesdames Crowiher and Storey, Messrs. Ormond, Uercoe, Martin, Maker, booth. Cook, Cneesanan and Mason. Turnbull and Co., agents. Aurora, schooner, 0G tons, llomcril, from East Coast, I’earce, agent. SAILED, May 30.—Wanaka, s.s., 273 tons, Malcolm, for Napier, Taurangi. I’ovcrty May, and Auckland. Fassengers—Saloon : Mi?s Sinclair, Messrs, Richards and Pavis. Levin and Co., agents. Arawata ss 023 tons, Underwood, tor .Nelson. .Passengers—Saloon: Messrs. Martin and Simmons. Bishop, agent. „ , Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons Harvey, for A\ angamu. Passengers—Cabin : Mr. and Mrs. Brough, Misses Smith (2); 4 steerage. Flimmcr. agent. "Wallace, p.s., 04 tons, Scott, fur .Nelson and AVest Coast. Deacon, agent. Stormbird, s.s., 09 tons. Done, lor Wanganui. Turnbull and Co., agents. JM TOUTS. [A special charge is made for consignees’ names in.serted in this column.] <Art , . DunC'Un, from Oamaru: 735 sacks flour, 400 halt do do, 120 qr do do. 100 do bran. Arawata, from Melbourne : 27 cases, 2 bales leather, 3 cases cigars, 2 boxes. 2 pels, 3 boxes. KXTORT.S. Wanaka, for Auckland and East Coast ports : 31 cases, 3 pkgs, 1 keg, 2 coils, 2 pels. "Wallace, for Nelson ; 24 drums oil, 1 pkg saddlery. For Greymouth : 2 pkgs. 3 bales. For Hokitika; 7 cases, 1 kog apples, 4 boxes raisins, C cases chairs, 2 trusses, 5 qr-casks brandy, 3 do do rum, 20 cases whisky. 30 do schnapps, 2 do tobacco, 10 do brandy. Manawatu. for Wanganui: 1 tank, 1 pocket, 4 cases iron, 44 pkgs, 200 bags. 40 do salt. UXTKCTBD ARRIVALS. London.— Wennington, early ; Queen of the AVest.; Robina Dunlop ; City of -Madras ; and Broomhall, early. Southkus Forth.— Hawea, this day; Taranaki, sth Juno. Noktkkus Pout*. Taupo, this day ; V» ellmgton, sth Juno. New York. —Ocean Chief, early: Elsinore, early. Kaikouka and Lyttelton.— Tui, this day. fro.mogted departures. London.- Carnatic, early; Chandiere, early. Mkloourni;. via the South.— Arawata, Ist June. Napier, Poverty Bay, Tauranoa, and Auckland.—Wanaka. 20th June. , . Northern Fours*. —Hawea, this day; Taranaki, Cth Jl \vlvNaANUi.—Manawatu, 2nd June; Stormbird, 2nd June. , , Southern J'orti.— Taupo, Ist June; Wellington, Cth June. Foxton.—Napier. Ist Jane. Nelson, Wksitort, Ghev-mouth, and Hokitika. —Murray, early. , _ Westi'OßT and GREVMOUTii.- Luna. 2nd June. . Castlepoint and Napier. —Kiwi, this day. Napier and Poverty Bay.— Rangallra, early. Sydney, via Napier and Auckland.— Rotorua, 2nd June. JSY TELEGRAPH AUCKLAND, Wednesday. Arrived; Augusta, from Fiji, with a cargo of maize. She encountered heavy weather. —Alastro, ■from London. The Kate McGregor is ashore at the Waikato Heads. No lives were lost. . , , The inquiry into the wreck of the Feruma closed ■yesterday. The decision is not known. The vessel was insured for <llOO9 in the New Zealand Insurance Company and £SOO in the South British. GREYMOUTH, Wednesday. Sailed: 11.35 a.m., Luna, for Wellington. LYTTELTON, Wednesday. Sailed • Tui, for Kaikoiira and AVollinglon. at C p.ra.; Elizabeth Conway and Reward for Hokitika.— The Hawea is to sail north at 9 p.m. Passengers for Wellington—Messrs. Buckridge and R. H. Rhodes. PORT CHALMERS, Wednesday. Arrived : Albion, from Lyttelton, at 5 p.m. ; ship liegent, from Astoria, Oregon, after a capital passage of 50 days. She brings a full caruo of lumber. The steamer Wanaka sailed for Auckland via the East Coast shortly after 11 a.m. yesterday. The Wallace sailed for Nelson and West Coast ports at 0 o’clock yesterday evening. The s.s. Napier arrived in harbor yesterday at 1 p.m. from Foxton, which place she left at 10 o'clock the previous night. Experienced strong south-west wind down. Tiie Napier will not leave again for Foxton tin Friday. . , The schooner Dunedin, Captain Stewart, from Oamaru, arrived in port yesterday at 1.30 p.m., with a cargo of flour, etc. She commenced her voyage on ihe 23rd instant, and had north-west winds to banks Peninsula ; afterwards variable hieezes ; and ou Tuesday night a fresh south-west wind came up, which brought her to port. Messrs. McMeckan, Blackwood, and Company s s.s. Arawata, Captain Underwood, arrived in port at 7.30 a.m. yesterday, from Melbourne via the South. She left Melbourne at 1.35 p.m. on the 21st instant, and cleared Port Phillip Heads at 4.30 p.m. Passed Swan Island at 10 a.rn. next day, and experienced fresh south-west winds and fine weather until the morning of the 23rd instant, when she encountered a fresh south-east wind, which increased to a strong southeast gale, with a high southerly sea, which continued till making the land on the morning of the Gth inst. She passed the Sdanders at 7 a.m., and reached The Bluff at 12.40 p.m. same day. Sailed at 5 p.m., and experienced south east and south-west winds to arrival at Port Chalmers at 7 a.m. On the 27th. Sailed at 4.40 pm. on the 2Sth, and arrived at Lyttelton at 7.40a.rn. on the 29th; sailed again at 5.15 p.m.. and arrived here as above. Experienced from Port Chalmers to arrival here southerly winds. We thank the purser, Mr. L. C. Miller, for files and report. The Arawata sailed for Nelson at 9 o’clock last night. The barque Australian Sovereign, Captain Berry, which was outside the Heads on Tuesday afternoon, anchored of the Pilot Station at 7 o’clock that night. She came into port yesterday morning, and beat up the harbor, anchoring off the wharf at 5 p.ra. The Australian Sovereign has bad her share of the bad weather which prevailed last week between Australia and New Zealand, and has apparently received the severest handling of any of the vessels that have as yet arrived in port from the westward. Captain Berry reports leaving Newcastle on the 19th inrian*, and experiencing fine westerly weather, with vivid lightning at night, and there was also visible at times a number of bright meteors, which burst like rockets, sending forth showers of miniature stars. This sort of weather lasted till the 24th inst,, when a gale arose from the north-east, accompanied with thick weather and heavy rain. '1 he gale worked round to the west, raising a very high and most confused sea; and on the night of the 25th inst., when the barque was head-reaching, an immense wave caught her on the port side and crashed on board with terrifle force, throwing the vessel on her beamends. and committing sad havoc on deck. The two boats wliich were stowed on the main hatch were smashed to pieces and carried over the side with all the movable articles winch happened to be on deck at the time. Another boat, which was lashed on the deckhouse aft, was washed bodily overboard, and the deckhouse itself received a very severe shock. The cabin skylight was torn away, part of the bulwarks washed out, and the sea wis of such immense height that it burst through the main and fore staysail. Fort mately, beyond a few bruises, none of the crew were injured. "When the heavy weight of water had left b ;r deck the vessel did not right, but remained with her lee rail under the water, and It was then ascertained that the cargo had shifted. The hatches had therefore to bo taken off. and the barque turned again. She was Jiove-to, the gale blowing terrifically and the sea lashing about furiously in all directions, and finding its way on board in large quantities over every part of the vessel. On the2Gth instant she was struck amidships by another very heavy sea, which smashed dean off ton of her stanchions flush with her deck, besides further damaging her bulwarks, and once more throwing the vessel on her beam ends, shifting the cargo, and making a dean sweep of her decks. On the 27th the gale abated to a fresh breeze, and that day at Sam. sighted Cape Farewell: came through the Strait with light northerly weather, and arrived in the harbor as above ■■stated.